For today's reflection, Rev Joe reads an excerpt from an essay he's working on for a new book. The working title of his essay is "The Solace of Landscape: Walking in Newfoundland during the Pandemic." It gives a glimpse into some of what we love about living in this place. 

Thank you for joining us today. 

Today's reflection is an excerpt from "Singing in the Choir on Sunday Morning," an essay by Stephen Fowl in Common Prayer.  Whether you love to sing, you sing in a choir, or you wonder why others do, Dr. Fowl's essay offers insight into the grace experienced through being part of a church choir, grace undiminished in today's reality of having to wear masks or keeping distance between us as we lift our voices in prayer and song.

Thank you for joining us today.

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For today's reflection, Rev Joe reads an excerpt from "The Play of the People," written by Rodney Clapp. The full essay appears in our book Common Prayer.

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Dear Friends,

We are not recording a worship service for tomorrow, Sunday, January 16. Please listen to this announcement to hear why that's good news.

God's peace and joy,
Rev Amy and Rev Joe

For our reflection today, Rev Amy reads an excerpt from an essay by Rhonda Mawhood Lee, "Indissoluble."   The whole essay appears in Common Prayer.

Rhonda is an Episcopal priest, born in Quebec, and living and serving in North Carolina. Her most recent book is Seek and You Will Find: Discovering a Practice of Prayer (Forward Movement, 2021).

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For today's reflection, Rev Amy reads excerpts about baptism from an essay by The Rt Rev J Neil Alexander, "On Sacraments and Sundays," from our book, Common Prayer.  We highly recommend Bishop Alexander's whole essay for anyone interested in learning more about baptism and the Eucharist and how Sundays shape our lives as followers of Jesus in the Episcopal and Anglican tradition. Today, we keep with the theme of baptism that we've been reflecting on starting this past Sunday, the Baptism of our Lord.

Bishop Alexander is a bishop in the Episcopal Church and is professor of liturgy and the Quintard Professor of Theology at the School of Theology at the University of the South in Sewanee, TN.

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For today's reflection, Rev Joe reads an excerpt from his essay in our new book, Saving Words.
We hope you enjoy it and perhaps use it to reflect on the meaning of your own baptism.

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Welcome to Morning Prayer for the Feast of the Baptism of our Lord. Thank you to Debbie and Ed Humber and Lloyd Hollett ("This is the Day") and Joanne Hounsell ("It is Well with My Soul") for helping make today's service. Rev. Amy gives the the sermon, based on Luke's account of Jesus's baptism, in Luke 3:15-17, 21-22.

You can watch a video of the service here.

Thank you for joining us today. We wish you God's peace and joy.

Dear Friends,

Here in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, we're at Alert Level 4 and the Anglican Diocese of Western Newfoundland has suspended in-person worship for a time.

While we're experiencing this hiatus, we're sharing excerpts from our recent book Common Prayer: Reflections on Episcopal Worship (Cascade Books, 2019), hoping that worshipers in the Anglican Church of Canada as well as Episcopalians will find "a window into the transformative experience of shared liturgy in all its particularity, difficulty, and beauty," as Sara Miles wrote in an endorsement.

Today, Amy reads an excerpt from her essay, "The Great Celestial—Terrestrial Choir."


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Dear Friends,

Here in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, we're at Alert Level 4 and the Anglican Diocese of Western Newfoundland has suspended in-person worship for a time.

While we're experiencing this hiatus, we're going to share excerpts from our recent book Common Prayer: Reflections on Episcopal Worship (Cascade Books, 2019), hoping that worshipers in the Anglican Church of Canada as well as Episcopalians will find "a window into the transformative experience of shared liturgy in all its particularity, difficulty, and beauty," as Sara Miles wrote in an endorsement.

Today, Joe reads an excerpt from the Foreword, by Stanley Hauerwas.

We leave you with the Collect for The Epiphany (from the Book of Common Prayer,  page 214):

O God, by the leading of a star you manifested your only Son to the peoples of the earth: Lead us, who know you now by faith, to your presence, where we may see your glory face to face: through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.


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